Example sentences of "n't [adv] been [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You ai n't already been in there as well , ‘ ave you , ma'am ? ’
2 She had n't always been like that — at least , not when I first knew her .
3 Captain Parcell has n't always been in the army .
4 I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen .
5 I like boats even though I have n't even been on one .
6 He could n't believe that it would have wandered far when it had n't even been outside the stable for such a long time .
7 Everyone thinks lesbians are only in prison , but I know loads of women from the outside who have n't even been to prison who are lesbians .
8 And now he 's made Big Ben and he has n't even been to London to see it .
9 He had n't even been in the club the previous evening , which should have helped but had n't .
10 Come back dinner time and they were saying well no you see you ca n't just a borrow a car to go to dinner in , yeah that 'll be alright man and I had n't even been in it since Roy bought it back !
11 A technicality defeated her attempt to become legal , however — she had n't yet been in Canada the requisite five years .
12 Erm , I 'm I 'm never sure about Bishops and Archbishops , erm I remember Archbishop Runcie once commenting about er , an activity that took place at the installation of a Bishop and it 's , I gather , I mean I 've , I have n't actually been to one , but if you 're Bishop or an Archbishop when they act to the triumph and act of installation took place there were you 'll find that the person was surrounded by Bishops and they were all sort of looking in on this er , this body that was gon na be installed and somebody once asked what are they doing ?
13 That man should consider himself lucky that Marvin had n't actually been in the mood for a brawl .
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